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...year history of Yale University's Chubb Fellowships-established to spark student interest in politics-had such intense preparation been made for a guest. Earlier "Chubbs" had included such controversial figures as Glubb Pasha (former commander of the Arab Legion), Adlai Stevenson, Barry Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus conservatives prepared their...
...I.V.S. dropout was led by Donald Luce, 33, an agricultural expert from East Calais, Vt., and the director of the I.V.S. team in Viet Nam. It developed only after months of soul-searching and internal maneuvering with the official U.S. AID superstructure in Saigon. Luce and his colleagues objected primarily to the "over-Americanization" of the war effort since mid-1965, felt that air and artillery strikes in Viet Cong country, by creating more refugees, were only prolonging the war and destroying the fabric of Vietnamese society. "Protesters usually put emphasis on napalm and other so-called atrocities," said Luce...
Anxious to avoid being tagged as extremists, Luce and the other I.V.S. protesters made sure that no newcomers from the New Left would sign their petition: all the signers were longtime (up to ten years) veterans of the Viet Nam scene. All felt that the American pacification effort, coupled with the harsh tactics necessary in a guerrilla war, have proved counterproductive to the U.S. aim of granting freedom of choice and opportunity to the Vietnamese. Massachusetts-born Hope Harmeling, 24, who teaches English for the I.V.S. in Saigon, touched another source of frustration by admitting that her view was "colored...
...York Times front-paged it before President Johnson even saw the letter. They pointed out that 26 other voluntary agencies are serving in Viet Nam without protest, and that less than a third of the I.V.S. personnel signed the letter to President Johnson. I.V.S. Director Arthur Z. Gardiner accepted Luce's resignation with regret, then made plans to head for Saigon to select replacements for the foursome from the staff in the field...
...still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then to Rome to fetch the proper dress for the ball. Amidst all the gaiety, practically no one noticed that...